Despite the fact that Osama Bin Laden is still apparently dead, the approval rating for Barack Obama just sunk for the first time under 40%. According to Gallup, the approval rating for the occupier of the White House was at 39%, while the disapproval rating was at 54%. (Racism, obviously!)

There are so many possibilities for songs that could accompany this development. However, Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner goes back a quarter-century to the still-possibly-ironically-given-this-particular-case-titled Born in the U.S.A. album by the ponderous, humorless Bruce Springsteen, who has not released a song that will linger in any sort of canon since President Reagan was in office.

Continue reading on Examiner.com With B.O.'s approval now under 40%, "I'm Goin' Down" is the 8/15 Song of the Day - http://www.examiner.com/jewish-culture-in-philadelphia/with-b-o-s-approval-now-under-40-i-m-goin-down-is-the-8-15-song-of-the-day#ixzz1VErFfWTP

Despite the fact that Osama Bin Laden is still apparently dead, the approval rating for Barack Obama just sunk for the first time under 40%. According to Gallup, the approval rating for the occupier of the White House was at 39%, while the disapproval rating was at 54%. (Racism, obviously!)

There are so many possibilities for songs that could accompany this development. However, Philadelphia Jewish Culture Examiner goes back a quarter-century to the still-possibly-ironically-given-this-particular-case-titled Born in the U.S.A. album by the ponderous, humorless Bruce Springsteen, who has not released a song that will linger in any sort of canon since President Reagan was in office. Those who have seen Amadeus may understanding what this writer means in saying that Springsteen is apparently a Salieri for our era. (Actually, more of a Salieri for the era in which The Jeffersons was on the prime-time air.)

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This is of course the Bruce Springsteen, aka “The Boss,” who spoke on October 4, 2008 at an Obama rally/concert on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Springsteen enlightened the crowd, among other things, that “what we really need is someone to lead us on an American reclamation project” and that “we remain for many, many people this house of dreams, and 1,000 George Bushes and 1,000 Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down.”

(Springsteen was introduced, by the way, by Angelo Cataldi of the sports-oriented 610 WIP Morning Show. Later that month, on the tremendous morning after the Phillies won the World Series, Cataldi thought it was appropriate to use the most celebratory occasion during his many years on the air to feature and thus provide such-regular-Phillies-fans!!! P.R. for Jill Biden and Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe. Somehow the subject of supporting Obama never seem to come up these days when Cataldi is on the air.)

So, anyhow, the Song of the Day is the self-explanatorily-titled “I’m Goin’ Down.”

A version of the song on Youtube can be accessed via this link.

Just think about the song’s lines “I remember back when we started/ My kisses used to turn you inside out.”

Pretends not to understand.
Reads minds (ascribes made-up motives).
Uses the brilliant and cogent argument, “I know you are, but what am I?”
Completely ignores logical rebuttals against its arguments and repeats them over and over after they’ve been shot down so bad they’re still bleeding.
Ignores Mods’ posts and continues to argue from square one as if other arguments or opinons have no bearing or are worthless.

This is an arrogant, trollish, spoiled brat, and I respectfully suggest we stop feeding it.
~THE OVERLORD~ should be able to deal with it.

Isn’t it nice that these days there’s an opportunity for certain types of people (I won’t say any name) to convince themselves that they have the power and respect that eludes them in other aspects of life?

“Larry” and schmuck with the humble-sized gun ... post pictures of yourselves so we can see what you look like in real life hahahaha! Trying to assess the psychology here.

Seems the moderator wrote, in the link YOU provided: “When you write or create your own content, then it is appropriate to claim yourself as the writer of an article or producer of a video and provide a link to it on your blog.”

Obviously, there was a lot more than a mere video (which I was mocking anyway) in what of mine I linked to. But you didn’t take the time to actually look before acting like you were in a position to judge.

Don’t try to argue that it’s otherwise. Just drop it. Thanks.

(If you have a thing for Obamaist Bruce Springsteen, so be it. You have plenty of company.)

The link I provided was to post #552, by Jim Robinson. I left the link “hot” so that you could read to which post it referred on purpose, but somehow you missed it.

As a result, you are responding to things in other posts on that thread which have nothing to do with the question at hand.

No one is saying you can’t link to your blog, or claim authorship. What we are saying is that it’s a rude abuse of the forum to use it as a hit farm for your blog, especially when the article in question is, in truth, hardly worth reading, much less excerpting.

Before you try the same tired old saw - yes, I have posted full articles here on FR, “hotshot.” And there’s a picture of me, my wife, son and a couple of our dogs on my profile page, along with some biographical information you might want to digest before throwing any more insults this way.

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posted on 08/16/2011 8:01:52 PM PDT
by shibumi
(The ragged they come and The ragged they kill! Down in the cool air I can see.)

You can back off, move to the side or stand where you are. It matters not a whit to me.

"...but I wasnt really soliciting you for those. It was the other two."

Seemed to be your modus operandi, so they were provided preemptively. If you've really been on FR as long as you claimed (something about since Clinton was president?) then it's realoly hard to believe you haven't seen pictures of 'Gunner. If you knew enough to click on Larry's profile, you'd see a few of him there too.

"Now lets see a sample of your own, apparently-superiorly-worth-reading written work from some point in the last few months."

I do not normally engage in self-promotion, nor do I claim that my writing is inherently superior. It is others who have stated that opinion. But since you asked (almost) nicely.....

Oh, and, for the record, while you are right that I’m relatively “pushy,” Luzinski himself is relatively easygoing in real life (and actually seems slightly trimmer than in his playing days, although it probably helps that he no longer has to wear those horrendous 1983 White Sox uniforms).

“Greg Louganis” ... good one actually. I’ve never heard anyone use that, but I’m guessing if Luzinski had played, e.g., for the Mets or Pirates, the Philly fans would have come up with that. (OK, OK, their career peaks really weren’t at the same time.)

"I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.

If a blogger cant or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then Id just as soon he doesnt post here. Its not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. Thats his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.

Furthermore, Im not big on rules. You wont see me posting rules for bloggers. The rules for bloggers on FR are the same as the rules for everyone else. If you are a good conservative activist and are willing to work with US on OUR goals and causes and not against US, then youre welcome to post to FR. But unless we say otherwise your blog material should be posted to our bloggers forum and it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. Were not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog. But if our readers see that you post useful information then they might start reading your site and thats fine by me."

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